Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.